Editor's Notes
My regular column is no longer running in Nashville City Paper. Here's why: I had questions about whether the paper was falling behind on payment to me for writing the column and, after two successive monthly checks were for less than I was promised, I emailed the paper for the upteenth time requesting a full accounting. The publisher, Brian Brown, responded by canceling the column. Now, the City Paper is just like the Tennessean - it offers no local weekly consistently conservative political column. ...

In other developments, thanks to Nashville Post magazine for mentioning me and my work with Corante.com, in its story on web logs, or "blogs." The story is available in the May 2002 print edition of Nashville Post. For those of you who don't know, I edit the "Internet" section of Corante.com, a daily web log of tech news. ...

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